Peter Sellers
Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age, Bio


Peter Sellers Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age

Birthday

: 08 September 1925

Sign

: Virgo
 

Died

: 24 July 1980

Lived

: 54 years

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  • Peter Sellers was an English film actor, comedian and singer
  • He performed in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film characterisations, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films
Born:08 September 1925 Comment
When did Peter Sellers die? / Died24 July 1980
How many years did Peter Sellers live? / Lived54 years
Zodiac sign:Virgo

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Who was Peter Sellers? / Facts   


  • Sellers made his stage debut at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, when he was two weeks old
  • He began accompanying his parents in a variety act that toured the provincial theatres
  • He first worked as a drummer and toured around England as a member of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA)
  • He developed his mimicry and improvisational skills during a spell in Ralph Reader's wartime Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured Britain and the Far East
  • After the war, Sellers made his radio debut in ShowTime, and eventually became a regular performer on various BBC radio shows
  • During the early 1950s, Sellers, along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, took part in the successful radio series The Goon Show, which ended in 1960
  • Sellers began his film career during the 1950s
  • Although the bulk of his work was comedic-based, often parodying characters of authority such as military officers or policemen, he also performed in other film genres and roles
  • Films demonstrating his artistic range include I'm All Right Jack (1959), Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Dr
  • Strangelove (1964), What's New, Pussycat? (1965), Casino Royale (1967), The Party (1968), Being There (1979) and the five films of the Pink Panther series (1963–78)
  • Sellers's versatility enabled him to portray a wide range of comic characters using different accents and guises, and he would often assume multiple roles within the same film, frequently with contrasting temperaments and styles
  • Satire and black humour were major features of many of his films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians
  • Sellers was nominated three times for an Academy Award, twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Dr
  • Strangelove and Being There, and once for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
  • He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role twice, for I'm All Right Jack and for the original Pink Panther film, The Pink Panther (1963) and was nominated as Best Actor three times
  • In 1980 he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in Being There, and also earned three other Golden Globe nominations in the same category
  • Turner Classic Movies calls Sellers "one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century"
  • In his personal life, Sellers struggled with depression and insecurities
  • An enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played
  • His behaviour was often erratic and compulsive, and he frequently clashed with his directors and co-stars, especially in the mid-1970s when his physical and mental health, together with his alcohol and drug problems, were at their worst
  • Sellers was married four times, and had three children from his first two marriages
  • He died as a result of a heart attack in 1980, aged 54
  • English filmmakers the Boulting brothers described Sellers as "the greatest comic genius this country has produced since Charles Chaplin"

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